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Regret with streaming eyes doth seem alway / A maiden widowed on her wedding day.
While dark Remorse, with eyes too sad for tears, / A crushed, desponding Magdalene appears.
One, with a hungering heart unsatisfied, / Mourns for imagined joys that were denied.
The other, pierced by recollected sin, / Broods o'er the scars of pleasures that have been.